On the possibility of Earth-type habitable planets around 47 UMa

Icarus

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 214-221

  Cuntz, Manfred ^a   von Bloh, Werner ^b   Bounama, Christine ^b   Franck, Siegfried ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Exobiology; Extrasolar planets; Geophysics; Orbits

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037355871     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0019-1035(02)00058-1     Document Type: Review

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